Comments on: Utah or Colorado?

By: Jason Mitchell

Jason Mitchell — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:29:53 +0000

Skier25… thanks for your comments, and I agree with you on many levels. Pockets of great snow can be had anywhere in the Rockies. We all know how much freaking snow Silverton gets! That place flat out gets pounded.

However, the point is accessibility. If you are flying in from Boston, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, etc., you will be skiing faster if you choose to go to SLC. DIA is a long haul from the slopes.

If you take the average snowfall at Snowbird, Alta, Solitude and Brighton and compare it to the average snowfall at the Colorado resorts, Utah wins that hands-down. Again, you do get pockets of crazy-deep snow anywhere in the Rockies–such as your observation at Monarch. The point is accessibility to the slopes, and Utah crushes Colorado in that regard.

By: skier25

skier25 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:55:52 +0000

This video is so biased towards Utah, I don’t even know where to start. First of all, Vail should by no means be viewed as the poster child for Colorado. Another thing is that the snow can be just as deep elsewhere in the state as it is in the Wasatch. Case in point: on December 21, 2007 it snowed 60 inches in 48 hours at Monarch mountain in the Sawatch Range. Can you say epic?!? Also, with hundreds of thousands of mountains in totally different and unique mountain ranges, the possibilities are endless. Why ski only one mountain range with a limited amount of terrain? Backcountry skiers in Colorado can go entire seasons without seeing anyone else on the same slope, while those in Utah have only one option. I think I’ve made a reasonable point.

By: Brig Graff

Brig Graff — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:33:28 +0000

agreed! Growing up in Seattle we had it good —- Alpental, Crystal Mountain, Stevens Pass, Mt. Baker…all within an hour or 3 from home. But if I’m going to live anywhere other than Seattle, I’m glad it’s Salt Lake. Even more accessible than Seattle’s resorts, the terrain is just as charged, and the snow is liiiiiight!! I mean, Snowbird and Alta are 25 mins from my driveway in town to the parking lot at the base of the lift. Now that’s accessible.